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Jack Greenberg (December 22, 1924 – October 12, 2016) was an American attorney and legal scholar. He was the Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund from 1961 to 1984, succeeding Thurgood Marshall. [1] He was involved in numerous crucial cases, including Brown v. Board of Education, which ended segregation in public schools.
Signature. Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was an American politician and statesman who served as the 38th vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969. He twice served in the United States Senate, representing Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and again from 1971 to 1978. As a senator he was a major leader of ...
Smith. Thoroughgood " Thurgood " Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court's first African-American justice. Prior to his judicial service, he was an attorney who fought ...
The book kicks off on the night Harris was elected a U.S. senator in 2016 and chronicles her journey from prosecutor to California Attorney General and beyond. She addresses many hot-button issues ...
Harris’ endorsement “made the difference” in the lawyer’s legal case, said Kevin Johnson, the dean of UC Davis’ law school. How Kamala Harris helped a California man become the nation ...
In 2003, in a runoff election, she was elected San Francisco district attorney, a post she held until winning an election to become the attorney general of California in 2010. She was re-elected ...
Bryan Stevenson. Bryan Stevenson (born November 14, 1959) is an American lawyer, social justice activist, and law professor at New York University School of Law, and the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative. Based in Montgomery, Alabama, he has challenged bias against the poor and minorities in the criminal justice ...
Kamala Harris was elected the attorney general of California in 2010, becoming the first woman, the first African American, and the first South Asian American to hold the office in the state's history. She took office on January 3, 2011, and would be re-elected in 2014 to serve until she resigned on January 3, 2017, to take her seat in the ...